GMO Ban Would be Costly

Purdue University researchers have explored the impact of a ban on GMOs and said it could drive up consumers’ food costs by $14 billion to $24 billion a year.

“We'd have higher food costs around the world,” said Professor of Agricultural Science Wally Tyner. “We’d have more poverty. We'd have more pesticide use, and more harmful pesticides. And we’d have higher greenhouse gas emission, so more contribution to global warming.”

Purdue President Mitch Daniels took this research to the USDA annual conference and urged leaders in science and agriculture to push back against those attacking GMO crops.

“If we are going to feed a hungry world, we need them,” said Daniels.

Source: WLFI News 18 S